Andreas during training at Star City

ESA's Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen during training in the Russian segment of the International Space Station, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, in Russia, on 15 October 2014.

Andreas Mogensen has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in September 2015 for a mission to the International Space Station. This 10-day mission will be Andreas's first flight into space and the first ever space mission by a Danish astronaut.